The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
CONSCIENCE
(pt. 5)
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
CONSCIENCE
(pt. 5)
Man has a conscience of what is good, and a conscience of what is just.
The conscience of what is good is the conscience of the internal man, and the conscience of what is just is the conscience of the external man.
The conscience of what is good consists in acting according to the precepts of faith from internal affection; but the conscience of what is just consists in acting according to civil and moral laws from external affection.
They who have the conscience of what is good, have also the conscience of what is just; but they who have only the conscience of what is just, are in a faculty of receiving the conscience of what is good; and they also do receive it when they are instructed.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 134)
• In the manuscript, the author, Emanuel Swedenborg, annexed to each section of the doctrine extracts from the Arcana Coelestia, because in the Arcana Coelestia the same things are more fully explained. Arcana Coelestia is available in print or online.